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Director – Identity Access Management (IAM) – Financial Services (FS) – UK – London

**You are required to be onsite 3 times per week in our Canary Wharf office, London**

Want to be part of an already market leading Cyber Practice?

EY are looking for an IAM Cyber Director to help drive and shape the next wave in our development. Are you up for the challenge?

Cyber security and its related challenges are a rapidly growing field. As such, the opportunities for careers in cyber security are also growing. Securing an organisation against cyber threats is a business priority to enable growth and successful digital transformation and we are at the heart of many of these conversations and projects. EY is rapidly expanding its cyber security consulting practice to further support these exiting opportunities

The financial services industry is currently undergoing a period of unparalleled change. Since the financial crisis, banks and financial institutions have been subjected to more stringent regulations, increased supervision and overall global economic instability. These changes have not come without a cost and has made these institutions re-evaluate the way they have been doing business traditionally. Moreover, the proliferation of technological advances including disruptive technologies and digital are compounding the pressures of maintaining competitiveness, being adaptable and increasing profit margins.

Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

The opportunity

At Director level, a large proportion of your time will be meeting with senior stakeholders of leading UK businesses (70%). You'll also be responsible for managing teams and delivering high quality work (30%). You will need to proactively identify opportunities, build strong relationships with clients and become their trusted advisor through the delivery of high quality cyber programmes. You will help clients with vary levels of cyber maturity through their entire journey, from assessing and advising, to designing and building transformation programmes and specific security solutions, to implementing and also managing security solutions, often alongside selected market leading vendors.

EY is seeking highly experienced team members who can review, design and deliver Cyber Identity and Access Management (IAM) services, have built a market presence and strong network of clients, and have proven track record of selling and delivering large complex projects in Financial Services (FS). You will take a leadership position in driving EY's cyber security and IAM capabilities. You will also take a supporting role in building out EYs IAM cyber services, working with alliance partners and advising clients on current market trends.

The role will see you providing specialist advice as part of large multi-discipline EY engagement teams working on the likes of cyber transformation and migration, leading specific security engagements advising on the adoption of secure architecture blueprints, secure software engineering practices, or optimising cyber defence operations.

You will work with colleagues in the UK and globally to develop new and innovative IAM security solutions and specific industry propositions that solve client problems/issues and integrate with their overall IT delivery and support strategy.

You will also have opportunities to work across multiple aspects of Cyber, Technology and business solutions.

Your key responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Own and drive the IAM proposition, go to market initiatives and client and vendor relationship.
• Achieve personal sales, revenue and chargeability targets while supporting the team's targets.
• Demostrate business acumen, ability to convert a hot topic into a sale and support Partners in the day to day activities.
• Lead a portfolio of IAM engagements with our clients, responsible for overall quality of deliverables, engagements including meeting time and budget targets.
• Work with prospective clients to agree, scope and plan the delivery phase of engagements.
• Lead our relationships with IAM alliance partners to drive collaboration and sales opportunities.
• Lead the enhancement and development of an IAM strategy for the FS sector by working in collaboration with the leadership of the FS cyber security business, IAM capability and our alliance partners.
• Develop team members by sharing knowledge, mentoring and coaching them and leading by example.

Skills and attributes for success

• Commercially aware and with industry relationships that will enable achievement of revenue in the region of £2million+.
• Be a good communicator with the ability to contribute assuredly to IAM business and technical security discussions with peers.
• Be a team player who is not only looking to enhance their own career but recognises the value of teamwork, facilitating and encouraging collaboration amongst team members, and is capable of motivating teams to maximise performance.
• Take a practical approach to solving issues and gaining client agreement.
• Be able to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions.
• Be confident and effective in recognising and managing potential issues during client assignments.
• Structure and manage projects which meet client expectations and mitigate any risks or issues.

To qualify for the role you must have:

Exposure across one or more of the following:

• Prior Director level experience leading client engagements and meeting sales objectives.
• Big 4 background or comparable consulting/advisory experience or working in C-suite CIO/CISO positions who have prior consulting experience with experience of business development across leading UK organisations.
• Identity Governance, Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Consumer Identity, and Cloud Identity.
• Worked with one or more of the following IAM technologies: Saviynt, Clear Skye, SailPoint, CyberArk, Entra, OneIdentity, BeyondTrust, Okta, Ping, ForgeRock.
• Project management experience on IAM solution deployments (waterfall and/or agile).
• IAM controls governance frameworks over processes, controls, organisation and infrastructure.

Ideally, you'll also have

• IAM business analysis experience.
• IAM assessment, strategy and roadmap development experience.
• Design experience for IAM solutions on client transformations.
• Key sector experience in Financial Services (Banking, Payments, Insurance, Wealth and Asset Management, Financial Market Infrastructure).
• IAM proposition development.
• Experience managing and coaching others in the development and delivery of complex client solutions and/or proposition development.

What we look for

• Core consulting skills: Advanced data and evidence management, client management on remediation programmes, driving innovation and continuous improvement.
• Technical skills: Strong technical insight, practical knowledge and specialist capability.
• Market/Sector knowledge: Demonstrable market/sector expertise in your field.
• Versatility: Proven ability to adapt and learn in an innovative environment.